Rothianadj.
/ˈrɒθɪən/, U.S. /ˈrɔθiən/ Written in the style of Philip Roth or his work; of or characteristic of Roth or his writing.Quot. 1969 contains a paraphrase of Fiedler's original remarks, which do not include the word ‘Rothian’ (see Congress. Bi-weekly (1963) 16 Sept. 69/2).
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1969 B. Sherman Invention of Jew v. 180 Leslie Fiedler calls Richler an ‘underrated Rothian commentator on the Jewish Canadian scene’.
1972 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 24 Sept. 39/1 If ‘Mirror Mirror’ is a bit too Rothian for comfort, nobody can complain about the way he develops his story line.
1983 Amer. Q. 35 536 McCall and Maulsby typify the Rothian conception of the humble upper-class woman.
1997 Kirkus Rev. 1 Nov. 1605 A fair-enough stab at Rothian (or, perhaps more accurately, Bellovian) comic portraiture.
2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 20/1 When Zuckerman meets Kliman for one of their intellectual duels, the scenes pop with high Rothian energy, both funny and hostile.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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